Process
Methodology for the 2018 Australasian Law Awards
Parameters:
- The entire Australian legal services market
- Work completed and services provided within the period 1st January 2017 to 31st December 2017
- Firms, lawyers, in-house departments, banks and accountancy firms based in or working predominantly in Australia
- Where the category name indicates the New Zealand legal services market
Criteria:
- Size - the financial value of the deal and the quantity of legal work involved
- Complexity - the degree to which advanced legal and financial techniques and structures have been applied to the deal
- Breadth - the degree to which the deal spanned jurisdictions, practice areas, parties and industries
- Innovation - the degree to which the deal involved ground breaking, original legal techniques and structure